Manhattan, NY +Gertel's Bakery Not Closing+

Manhattan, NY - According to Abe Stein, owner of the legendary kosher bakery Gertel’s, at 53 Hester Street, there is “no base to rumors that the store is closing.”

Mr. Stein after reading in a NY Magazine that cried: “Impending Jewish-Bakery Apocalypse?” warning that “Gertel's Bakery, one of the last of the old-time Jewish bakeries on the Lower East Side, may be shutting down, another victim of the condo-ing of New York, “If that bakery's classic hamantaschen and rugalach are on the way out, we wondered, Can Yonah Shimmel's knishes and Kossar's bialys, other pillars of Jewish baked goods, be far behind?”
"We haven't finalized anything yet," owner Abe Stern said back then, without denying the possible closing, widely discussed in the neighborhood.” But, apparently, not denying is not the same as saying Yes, he says now.